Court refuses to stop Washington gay marriage law
The US Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to block the District of Columbia’s gay marriage law, freeing the nation’s capital to issue its first marriage licenses to same-sex couples the following day.
Opponents of gay marriage in the nation’s capital had asked Chief Justice John Roberts to stop the city from issuing the licenses today while [...]
Saddam Hussein’s surgeon to exhibit art in UK
Paintings by Dr Ala Bashir, Iraq’s most celebrated artist and a surgeon who was once Saddam Hussein’s personal physician, are to be exhibited at the University of Leicester from May 14.
After spending 20 years in the service of one of history’s most notorious dictators, the artwork of Dr Ala Bashir provides a chilling insight into [...]
Surat bombing suspect held in UK, faces extradition
A key 1993 Surat terror bombing suspect, hunted by police worldwide for over 17 years, was arrested from a north England grocery store and a city court here will decide over his extradition to India.
49-year-old Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel alias Tiger Hanif was traced to the grocery store in Bolton by Scotland Yard and later [...]
US faces ’serious’ cyberspace threats, says advisor
The United States faces “serious and significant” threats within cyberspace, the White House’s top counter-terrorism advisor has said, adding it was an issue of national security.
“The threats and the vulnerabilities within the cyber domain are serious and significant,” John Brennan told NBC, adding a cybersecurity board had been set up at the White House.
“It’s a [...]
55 countries pledge mitigation targets to UN
The UN has received pledges from 55 countries, including India, for cutting their share of greenhouse gases by 2050, a development welcomed by the world body as an “important invigoration” to the Copenhagen climate talks.
Some of the world’s biggest polluters, the US, China, European Union and India, have reiterated their previous pledges of cutting emissions [...]